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Cody Rhodes Reflects On His First WWE Run, What He’d Tell His Younger Self

October 3, 2024 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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Cody Rhodes recently looked back at his first run in WWE and what advice he would give his younger self. Rhodes spoke with Complex for a new interview and a few highlights are below:

On what he would tell his younger self: “People ask all the time, what would you tell your younger self? I wouldn’t tell my younger self a damn thing. Make every mistake you can make.”

On understanding why his first WWE run went the way it did: “I learned so much from being a way of what I was just missing, flat out,” Cody admits. “All the ‘Dusty Kids’ (wrestlers trained in NXT by his father, such as Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Bayley to name a few) that I was jealous of and mad at, well, they were probably better than I was at the time. There were things that I wasn’t doing correctly.”

On changing his physical stature during his time away: “It might feel alpha, it might feel toxic, but wrestling is still a heavyweight industry. When you’re standing across from a Drew McIntyre or a Roman Reigns, and you’re suspending the disbelief of this battle, this contest, being a heavyweight has helped me considerably. At 6 ‘1, to try and stay genuinely around 220 [pounds] is exactly where I need to be and then continue to push it and do it in a healthy way. Now [in WWE] we have access to nutritionists, dietitian … being a heavyweight moving forward, [I’m] putting on that weight safely.”

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